Against my better judgment, I am going to chime in.
Using the term 'slash' is a bit hyperbolic. I actually noticed this in real time and thought it to be more of a, 'Come on, let's get that back!' type of thing. It apparently wasn't and Georgiev apologized. He is nowhere near Grubauer when it comes to deflecting blame onto his teammates.
I am not saying that this is justification for being a bad teammate, but in 50+ years of watching hockey, I can't recall any goaltender being constantly hung out to dry as Georgiev has. Does he let in the occasional softie? Sure. But so have Kuemper, Grubauer, Varlamov, and a not small pile of Av backups.
Again, I have never seen a goalie face so many odd-man rushes or knuckle-head plays by his teammates. Hell, even Makar has had two 'own goals' in the past 10 games. Toews was an absolute nightmare in this game, first giving up a lazy stupid intercepted pass with 5 seconds to go in a period. Then he did his best impression of RyJo getting lost in no man's land and making zero effort to block a pass which almost hit his stick anyway. A few games back, Toews was defending a 2 on 1, and broke all the rules taught in PeeWee. All ( and no less than 20 other goals this season) these team failures impact any goalie's Save%.
I am not in love with Georgiev's lack of rebound control. I want to kill him when he strolls around the rear of the net. But I would estimate that no less than 50% of his goals against come after a teammate pulls some brain-dead mistake.
